Vanessa Feltz has said she felt "extremely upset" by a Sunday Times column which suggested she and Claudia Winkleman earned high salaries because they were Jewish.

The BBC presenter described the piece by Kevin Myers as "so obviously racist it's surprisingly hurtful".

She also questioned how no-one at the paper appeared to spot the article.

Editor Martin Ivens said the piece, which was in the Irish edition and online, should not have been published.

Speaking on BBC Radio London where she presents the breakfast show, Feltz said: "I would have thought after all these years I'd be immune or used to it, but that's not at all how I felt. I felt extremely upset.

The educated classes in Britain, including journalists, are being schooled anew in the tropes of Jew-hatred, with "illegitimate occupiers of Palestine" replacing "Christ-killers" in the demonology. This firing and apology are wonderful, but they don't solve the problem, which is that the world's oldest hate will not die and is resurgent on the backs of a human tide fleeing Islamic countries but wanting to impose Islam on their hosts.

The wave of Jew-hatred spreading throughout the world surfaced in the pages of yesterday's Sunday Times in the UK. The BBC reports:

A Sunday Times columnist "will not write again" for the newspaper after one of his articles was branded "anti-Semitic" and "disgraceful".

In the piece, Kevin Myers suggested BBC presenters Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz earned high salaries because they were Jewish.

Vanessa Feltz has said she felt "extremely upset" by a Sunday Times column which suggested she and Claudia Winkleman earned high salaries because they were Jewish.

The BBC presenter described the piece by Kevin Myers as "so obviously racist it's surprisingly hurtful".

She also questioned how no-one at the paper appeared to spot the article.

Editor Martin Ivens said the piece, which was in the Irish edition and online, should not have been published.

Speaking on BBC Radio London where she presents the breakfast show, Feltz said: "I would have thought after all these years I'd be immune or used to it, but that's not at all how I felt. I felt extremely upset.

The educated classes in Britain, including journalists, are being schooled anew in the tropes of Jew-hatred, with "illegitimate occupiers of Palestine" replacing "Christ-killers" in the demonology. This firing and apology are wonderful, but they don't solve the problem, which is that the world's oldest hate will not die and is resurgent on the backs of a human tide fleeing Islamic countries but wanting to impose Islam on their hosts.